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  <h1>Ant</h1>
  <p>You can change the following preferences on the <a class="command-link" href=
  'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ant.ui.AntPreferencePage)")'>
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        <th width="25%">Option</th>
        <th>Description</th>
        <th width="8%">Default</th>
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        <td>Names</td>
        <td>Configures the buildfiles that Ant's "-find" emulation searches for.</td>
        <td align="center">build.xml</td>
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        <td>Separate JRE Timeout</td>
        <td>The time in milliseconds to wait for communication with the Java virtual machine when running an Ant build
        in a separate Java runtime environment.</td>
        <td align="center">20000</td>
      </tr>
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        <td>Documentation URL</td>
        <td>Enables you to browse for the applicable documentation URL.</td>
        <td align="center"><a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual" target="_blank">http://ant.apache.org/manual</a></td>
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        <td>Always run new Ant configurations in the same JRE as the workspace</td>
        <td>Allows you to automatically always have all new Ant launch configurations set to run in the same JRE as the
        workspace.</td>
        <td align="center">Off</td>
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        <td>Warn when tools.jar is not on the classpath</td>
        <td>Displays a warning when tools.jar is not on the classpath.</td>
        <td align="center">On</td>
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        <td>Show error dialog when Ant build fails</td>
        <td>Displays an error message when the Ant build fails.</td>
        <td align="center">On</td>
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        <td>Create problem markers from <code>javac</code> results</td>
        <td>Create warning and error markers from the build results of an Ant <code>javac</code> task. Marker creation
        requires that a console is allocated for the build and that the <code>listfiles</code> attribute of the
        <code>javac</code> task be set to true.</td>
        <td align="center">Off</td>
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        <td>Ant Color Options</td>
        <td>Configures the colors of the Ant build output.</td>
        <td align="center">Varies by Ant output</td>
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  <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-antsupport.htm">Ant support</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="../reference/ref-antruntimeprefs.htm">Ant runtime
  preferences</a><br>
  <a href="../reference/ref-anteditorprefs.htm">Ant editor preferences</a><br>
  <a href="../reference/ref-antformatter.htm">Ant formatter preferences</a><br>
  <a href="../reference/ref-anttemplates.htm">Ant templates preferences</a>
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